Andronik Iosifyan

Andranik Gevondovich Iosifyan (Russian: Андроник Гевондович Иосифьян; born 21 July 1905 in Bazarkand, Kalbajar, Karabakh, died 13 April 1993 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet Armenian scientist in the field of electrical and aerospace engineering.

Andronik Iosifyan
Andronik Iosifyan on a 2011 Armenian stamp
Born(1905-07-21)July 21, 1905
Bazarkand, Kalbajar, Karabakh
DiedApril 13, 1993(1993-04-13) (aged 87)
Moscow, Russia
NationalityArmenian
CitizenshipSoviet Union
Known forChief electrician of R-7 Semyorka ICBM and Soyuz spacecraft
AwardsHero of Socialist Labor (1961)
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
Aerospace engineering
InstitutionsAll-Union Scientific Research Institute of Electromechanics

He is known as one of the founders of Soviet missilery and cosmonautics, the chief constructor of the first Soviet Meteor weather satellites, and the father of electromechanics in USSR. Iosifyan is the founder and the first director of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Electromechanics (VNIIEM) – the USSR's largest scientific research institute of electromechanics.

Being one of the most outstanding figures in the field of military and rocket production, Andranik Iosifyan for about thirty years was the USSR's classified chief constructor of electrical equipment of ballistic rockets, nuclear submarines and spacecraft, including the R-7 Semyorka by Sergei Korolev and the Vostok spacecraft. One of Iosifyan's most important inventions, noncontact synchronized transmissions, considered a revolution in technology.[1][2][3]

Under the leadership of Iosifyan, practically the entire electrical part of the Soyuz spacecraft, automatic transport cargo ships of the Progress spacecraft and Salyut and Mir space stations were developed.[4]

Sergei Korolev called him the "chief electrician" of missile technology.[5][6]

References
  1. Boris E. Chertok Rockets and People. Asif A. Siddiqi (ed.). NASA. ISBN 978-0-16-081733-5. Vol. Rockets and People 1, 2, 3
  2. ЦНИИ РТК – Энциклопедия космонавтики Archived 4 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Rtc.ru (4 August 2003). Retrieved on 18 July 2014.
  3. К 100-летию А.Г. ИОСИФЬЯНА: Ученый, который крайне нужен сегодня Archived 30 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Ielectro.ru.
  4. Космический мемориал: А.Г. Иосифьян (Russian)
  5. Rockets and People, Volume II: Creating a Rocket Industry, p. 122
  6. First steps of domestic missile engineering (Russian)

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